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An image's page in the web UI (/ui/package/oci/{name}) lists only its cached blobs, by digest. A new release such as pihole/pihole:2026.11.0 can't be told apart from the image before it, and nothing shows which digest latest points at.

This adds a "Tags" section to that page:

• A pull by tag (a GET, or the HEAD Docker and containerd send first) and a scheduled mirror run record the digest the tag points at, in a new image_tags table (package_purl, tag, digest, seen_at, migration 024_add_image_tags).
• The time is when the upstream last confirmed the tag. A copy served stale during an outage doesn't move it, and an older sighting doesn't overwrite a newer one.
• Pulls by digest record nothing. Referrers and cosign tags (sha256-<hex>, .sig, .att, .sbom) are left out, since they don't name an image.
• The page lists up to 100 tags, the most recently seen first, with the digest and the time. Other ecosystems are unchanged.
• A blob's page (/ui/package/oci/{name}/{digest}) names, under Version Info, the tags whose cached image contains it. It follows each tag's manifest to its platform manifests and their configs and layers, through the manifests already cached, so only what clients or mirror runs pulled is known. Reading them doesn't count as a use of the cache, so it doesn't change what eviction keeps.

The table is independent of image_manifests in #702, which records only with keep_latest set. Both PRs add migration 024 and touch writeManifest, so whichever goes in second needs a small merge. Rows are never pruned. They are small, one per tag ever pulled.

Tested with go test ./... and golangci-lint run ./... (0 issues). Removing the stale check, the referrers filter, the mirror hook, a level of the walk, or reading without counting a use makes the new tests fail.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Container image pages list tags by most recent sighting, with each tag’s digest and last-seen time.
  • Version pages show which image tags contain the displayed version’s blob.
• Documentation
  • Updated the container registry guide to describe the tag and cached-image details shown in the web UI.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds database storage for OCI image tags and records eligible sightings during container pulls and mirror runs. The server matches tags to cached image content. OCI package and version pages display associated tag information.

Changes: OCI image tags

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image-tag storage internal/database/image_tags.go, internal/database/schema.go, internal/database/image_tags_test.go	Adds the ImageTag type, SQLite and PostgreSQL schema support, and methods to record and retrieve tags. Retrieval orders tags by sighting time, then tag. Tests cover ordering, updates, limits, and migration.
Record sightings and match cached content internal/handler/container_image_tags.go, internal/handler/container_manifest.go, internal/handler/container_mirror.go, internal/handler/container_image_tags_test.go	Records eligible tag sightings from manifest responses and mirror runs. Matches tags to cached manifests, configs, and layers. Tests cover recording conditions, stale manifests, mirror runs, and digest matching.
Show tags on package and version pages internal/server/dashboard.go, internal/server/server.go, internal/server/templates/pages/package_show.html, internal/server/templates/pages/version_show.html, internal/server/image_tags_ui_test.go, README.md	Loads tags for OCI package pages and matches tags to version digests. Templates show package tag counts, digests, and UTC sighting times, and list matching tags on version pages. Tests cover OCI and non-OCI pages. The README describes image tags and digest-based image versions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ContainerClient
  participant ContainerManifest
  participant recordImageTag
  participant Database
  participant PackagePage
  participant VersionPage
  participant ImageTagsContaining
  participant SharedCache
  ContainerClient->>ContainerManifest: Request manifest by tag
  ContainerManifest->>recordImageTag: Pass tag reference and manifest
  recordImageTag->>Database: Store tag, digest, and sighting time
  PackagePage->>Database: Load ordered tags for OCI package
  Database-->>PackagePage: Return tag records
  VersionPage->>Database: Load tags for OCI package
  Database-->>VersionPage: Return tag records
  VersionPage->>ImageTagsContaining: Match version digest against tags
  ImageTagsContaining->>SharedCache: Read manifests by digest
  SharedCache-->>ImageTagsContaining: Return manifest references
  ImageTagsContaining-->>VersionPage: Return matching tags

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Possibly related PRs

• git-pkgs/proxy#702: Both PRs register migration 024 and change writeManifest; PR #702 records image manifests for retention.
• git-pkgs/proxy#679: This PR uses mirrorDigestPattern to validate manifest digests when recording tag sightings.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: andrew, pinguinfuss

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f09d6

Blob pages for container images with many distinctly-tagged cached images can become slow because each page view reads cached manifests one after another. Tag listing itself works and the older-tag lookup is fixed. Bound or index the lookup before merging, or accept the latency for large repositories.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to f09d6

The new blob-page lookup can turn one page view into a large scan of cached image metadata. Repeated requests could consume shared resources beyond the intended page-rendering workload. Existing tag and depth limits help, but do not bound total work.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: An existing OCI version-page GET now synchronously traverses cached manifests for up to 1,000 tags without a cumulative descriptor, database-query, or byte budget. An upstream publisher whose broad manifest is pulled into the cache can influence this workload; distinct referenced digests cause database lookups even when their manifests are absent. Repeated reachable page requests can amplify that stored input into shared database, storage, CPU, and memory pressure. Depth and tag limits do not bound descriptor breadth, and the traversal neither checks cancellation itself nor passes request context into metadata database queries. Effective exploitability depends on cached content, an existing version page, and deployment access controls.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Each lookup is scoped to one existing OCI package/version and its selected tags, but consumes the server's shared database and storage resources. Resource pressure can therefore affect requests beyond that repository. No new cross-tenant authorization authority or arbitrary upstream-network access was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The introduced availability path is upstream-controlled manifest breadth entering the cache through an ordinary pull, followed by repeated GETs to an existing OCI version page. Descriptor digests drive synchronous metadata lookups, including misses, while cached child manifests add storage reads and parsing. Publishing reachable upstream content and passing any deployment UI controls are preconditions; an outage has not been demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing UI router has no application authentication middleware and explicitly delegates differentiated access rules to a reverse proxy. This PR does not introduce that access model, but adds substantial work behind the existing GET boundary. Effective authentication and rate limiting cannot be determined from the inspected repository configuration.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Traversal memoizes manifest references per request, stops at depth two, and reads only cached data. Individual documents have a configured size limit, defaulting to 100 MiB, and storage opens receive request context. These controls reduce repeated work and network exposure, but do not impose an aggregate traversal budget; metadata queries use the context-free database Get method.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Give containment lookup an aggregate budget covering descriptors examined, database lookups, bytes parsed, and elapsed time. Propagate cancellation into database reads and stop traversal promptly, returning explicitly partial tag information when the budget is exhausted. This would contain page-triggered work independently of external access controls.

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- Around line 25-26: Update the manifest-only sighting flow around
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- Line 1323: Update the tag lookup in the version-page flow around ImageTags to
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Major · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift

Avoid 1,000 sequential manifest reads per page.

With 1,000 tags pointing to distinct cached manifests, ImageTagsContaining reads each manifest before rendering the blob page. Each read queries the database and opens storage; platform manifests can add more reads. At 10 ms per storage read, the root reads alone take about 10 seconds on every page view. Deduplication does not help when the digests differ. Use a reverse index or another approach that bounds request-time I/O without dropping older matches. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update ImageTagsContaining and the maxImageTagsSearched approach to avoid sequentially reading up to 1,000 manifests for each page request. Use a reverse index or another strategy that bounds request-time database and storage I/O while still finding older matching tags; do not solve the cost by excluding older matches.

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